Hacker builds floating Jedi droid

Scofflaw YouTuber and opportunistic hardware hacker Troopertrent
has made his own gravity-defying spaceball. To be precise, he made
a floating replica of the Jedi Training Remote from Star Wars, the one that fires laser bolts for Luke to
intercept when first aboard the Millennium Falcon.

The model, as you can see in the screen-grab above*, is an
almost perfect replica of the remote, although a little smaller,
and a little less hostile. How is it done? Magnets. Troopertrent took one of those tacky floating-ball
executive toys in which a globe is suspended, dangling free in a
magnetic field. Taking care not to add too much weight, he grafted
on various plastic nodules and nubbins, gave the thing a lick of
paint and re-floated it.

As the esteemed tech writer and beloved internet personality
Andy Ihnatko put it when he posted
this on Twitter, "OK, somebody at Lucasfilm
Licensing is DEFinitely getting fired for not thinking of this
1st," adding a heartfelt "wantwantwant", something with which I can
only agree. So c'mon, Lucasfilm: you let the amazing Tauntaun sleeping bag come to life. Now do it with this amazing
floating ball.

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